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Re: incremental tar backups


At 03:04 PM 1/12/2004, Christopher Faylor you wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:24:36PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
>>At 02:00 PM 1/12/2004, DAVID SPEAR you wrote:
>>>I am running cygwin under Win2K Pro SP4, and am having some trouble creating 
>>>backups with the gnu tar 1.13.25 that came with my distribution.  Specifically, 
>>>I can make a full backup (of a directory) using:
>>>
>>>cygserver% tar -cf backup.tar -g /cygdrive/d/tmp/dumpdates-backup --ignore-
>>>failed-read -l -v /cygdrive/d/myfolder
>>
>>I assume you missed this in your search for info?
>>
>><http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01653.html>
>
>That should be old news.  The current version of tar is supposed to fix the
>problem.  See: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-11/msg00009.html .


Good point.  I didn't chase the thread far enough (it's not my greatest
skill anyway ;-) ). 




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